Thursday, April 25, 2013

Temporary Silence

Look at this... don't even have the time to do a proper blog post...

LSODM is over 133,000 words right now and I promised my editor I'd have a reasonably finished first draft to him by the end of the week. That means no Twitter and no blogging, and very little internet presence at all. Even a half hour of writing a blog is a half hour of NOT writing the book, and I can't afford to do that right now. When the book is done, when it's finally done, business as usual will be resumed. Until then, this temporary silence continues.

Good to hear from you Derek *hugs* I am glad you will let nothing distract you from your writing.I do have a question. Have you ever felt a time when you no longer wished to write? Not just quit wrriting a book or another project but to quit writing at all?

I was basically dying of boredom this week, Derek, checking your blog every hour for an update. But really psyched to hear the new book is getting along in in's awesome epicness (or is it epic awesomeness?).

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not that hard i may act dumb but it wont take me long to find his house....

i sounded stalkerish

i wonder if he reads these comments

probably not and good thing mom didnt lemme have iced coffee for Derry even she said she would rather Derek survive dealing with me on coffeee and im supposed to go to bed in a half hour or so...OOPSIE

Seven brothers go to war, three return. Three were captured by the Japanese (one being beaten to death, one dying from illness. One escaped but was shot in the head by a Japanese patrol) and one was beheaded by a Japanese.

I feel cold. My arms and back feel like ice. Even with a jacket. It is the horror of what has been. What is to come.My nose starts to sting and the lights become blurry. Something cold trickles down my eyes. Tears. Tears for the fallen. Fallen for our safety.

Special Olyics are were the special ed kids or lifeskills have like fun olympic style games and so those of us who aren't special ed and are high school age (or me last year in 8th grade and had connections) get to help out and be a buddy who takes the kid to and from events or run a stand so yeah its fun its May 29th during school and i did it last year

“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.” ― Shel Silverstein

I've thought of some good ideas to put in future books.First: You said that werewolves were nearly extinct. During my random story-creation/fanfic thing, I made a creature called the Apatonynchus. If you do read all the comments then you may have seen the kind of biography of the creature around. If not it's here:

The name Apatonynchus means deceptive claw in Greek. It is about the size of a wolf, with short brown fur. It has a spiked tail (one spike either side of the tip of its tail), and has yellow eyes with black pupils. Its ears are set upon antennae, and are the shape of a lilly, and stick out diagonally from the top of its head. It has a frill around its neck like a triceratops, but is much smaller and contains no horns. The frill has been known to change colour depending on how the creature is feeling.Its eyesight is usable, but it tends to emit ultrasonic waves like bats do to navigate their way around. Its sense of smell is extraordinarily good, though.It makes only a small variety of noises (hisses - where its lower jaw vibrates, and roars).It isn't from this dimension (as in, a parallel world or something is where it originates from), though the first sighting of the creature was in the caves beneath Gordon's house.These creatures are immune to all magical powers/effects, so for example it could kill a faceless one without a God-Killer and kill a werewolf without silver. They can also walk on walls and ceilings.They have a forcefield around them, in the radius of about 30cm. It is created by accident, and from birth, due to the fact that there is a complex combination of magic happening when two of the species mate. It cannot control the forcefield.This is the reason I thought of why the werewolf numbers were so low, because the species Apatonynchus are sworn enemies of the werewolf and tend to hunt them down.

Second: The Sanctuary MUST have friends within the government to cover up all the explosions etc. They would have been captured on CCTV so many times and they might have not even realised. Even a car chase, for example. So, therefore, in my stories I created a government agency called Special Operations of the Supernatural, or the SOS for short. They deal with the cover-ups and have people in the government to prevent certain situations. They also provide a covert anti-terrorist force, to deal with mages who threaten people's safety.Known vehicles include Apache helicopters and black Jaguar XF's with tinted windows.They carry Colt M4 carbines and Beretta M9 pistols.Their uniforms consist of kevlar body armour (black) and navy and black army camouflage. They wear tactical goggles (black tinted), military grade kevlar helmets and a tactical face-mask to hide their features from view. They generally HALO jump (High Altitude Low Opening) into combat situations as it's the best way to fly in without being detected.The SOS is split into squads, consisting of six people. Two pilots (well one pilot and one gunner) and four "Units" who are codenamed conveniently, so "Unit 1", "Unit 2" etc.

I'm either here for a long time and really distant or here for a short time and then poofing and reappearing. Or maybe not here at all. Depends on whether I break anything. I break something, I'm not here.

Today in English we had to write a persuasive speech and we got to choose the subject from a list. So me, just being me, chose to persuade people in a very dramatic speech that people in schools should wear yellow uniform.

And Lewis, no problemo. I have a perfect villain. He's not indestructible, but he can like control nearly everything and he can heal himself (though it takes a while). As for the Kenspeckle kind of person... I'll have a look through them. ^^

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9234265/1/HideCopy and paste that and you'll read the first chapter of my story. or you could copy and paste thishttp://skulduggerypleasantuniversehide.blogspot.co.uk/They're both the same. And if you could tell me ways to improve i'll be really grateful!

Really Taia?!We got our finalised timetable thing there at the beginning of the week. There is 2 weeks where I have no exams what so ever and a week at the beginning with nothing as well. And I have 11 exams.

Well, I've been given the dates, just, naturally, I immediately forgot the space during which they go on. :PI'm guessing I'll get an actual timetable nearer the time. I think I've got /about/ four weeks until then. ^^And even then, the majority of mine won't be until next year, I guess. Though that doesn't really make me feel any better about it. :P

NJ: Yay! I'll bet maths is great to see the back of. ;)I have six exams for sciences next year. And that's assuming I don't have to re-sit any. Not having to think about those will be nice, at least. :P

“Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.” ― E.B. White, Charlotte's Web

I have changed my phone wallpaper to something really cool. It's like something on fire (I think it's just a blob of fire), then there's like spirals of magical type fire stuff all around. It sounds not that good but it is and it's also very good to have as a background.If any of you watch doctor who, it's like when Time Lords regenerate but with a piece of fire in the middle.

Brad, I say cheese because it's random and nearly everyone likes cheese. Cheese is good.And as for being bullied in school... I was ONCE in Primary School when I was like 7. He was rather large person (as in wide, not tall) and eventually I got fed up and headbutted him and threw a bike at him.Then someone once TRIED to bully me again a few years ago. But yeah I'm 6ft 7 (around 2m tall), so it wasn't the best idea that he ever had. I kind of threw him down a hill.But nope, currently not. I doubt anyone would try and bully me when I'm like a foot taller than everyone. ^^